T-Mobile G2x now available online for $199.99

Hey, where can I get the business card?? That was the most shady, used car salesman line I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s one thing to lean one way or the other but to outright lie (“..is never fast no matter how fast the CPU is in android phones”) is pretty sad and not at all helpful. She wanted someone to shed some light on UMA and which phone (if any) would offer wi-fi calling… FAIL!! Shut your mouth and talk about something you KNOW and not your opinion.

Thanks – I know my way around Android pretty well already and since I support lots of Android users I am well aware of their weaknesses My primary concern at this moment is strictly wifi calling/UMA.

I do pay the $10/month already for the @Home service – and since that service isn’t offered anymore, I have to be very careful about making plan changes because they repeatedly remind me that one wrong move and my @Home plan disappears and can’t be added back. I had to call customer svc about an issue last year with my Enterprise/Exchange account not working and in an attempt to resolve the problem, the tech removed my Enterprise plan and then added it back. 2 days later I noticed that my minute usage was way too high and it turned out that by simply doing what the tech did, it removed my @Home plan as well. Took over a week of dealing with Exec Cust Care to finally get it added back. Not looking forward to doing that again

And btw.. thank you for the info. What you’re saying makes sense, which is why I am hesitant to believe it. This is T-Mo after-all, and things that are logical and sensible always seem just out of their grasp. Still, for 15 years they’ve been the absolutely best bang for my buck, so I stick with them.

I do hope what you’re saying is true. It would be nice to get confirmation of the above from T-mobile, but I get different answers from different people by phone and in store so I am going to wait it out for a while longer and see what others experience. Although some of the other Android devices that you mention are appealing, the G2x is the first one that really compels me to leave the BB behind, so that’s what I’ve had my eye on. If I do make the move, this will most likely be the device I move to.

Also just so you know you don’t need that $10 feature to actually place Wifi calls. That feature just gives you the unlimited calls through Wifi. It’s the same concept as most cell phones are capable of text messaging, but the unlimited texting feature is what enables you to text as much as you want. If you were to loose the unlimited texting feature, your phone can still place text messages.

It’s the unlimited calls over wifi that I am concerned with, however. I have the $10 feature and I take very full advantage of it on the BB. Without it, my phone bill would be much higher. Our family plan is 500 minutes shared over 3 lines. I average about 1500 voice minutes just on my line alone, the majority of which are made over wifi. The other 2 lines make more than half their calls over wifi as well. In other words, without unlimited wifi calling, there’s a major disadvantage to switching away from a UMA Blackberry. I’ve now called T-mo customer service 3x and each time different reps have sworn that since I have the @Home feature that my wifi calls on the G2x would NOT count toward my minutes. That’s promising, but I won’t know for sure until I try it for myself so unless I get confirmation or dispute from another @Home subscriber that their wifi calls aren’t being deducted from their minutes, the only way I’m going to know is to buy it and try it myself. If I see that it’s pulling minutes for my wifi calls, I’ll just return it within the 14 day return period and go back to what I already have.